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Grade 8
Language structures and conventions
- Abbreviations
 - Active and passive voice
 - Adjectives
 - Adverbs
 - Antonyms
 - Articles
 - Common errors: Ambiguity
 - Common errors: Concord
 - Common errors: Confusing words
 - Common errors: Double negatives
 - Common errors: Everyday English mistakes
 - Common errors: Homophones
 - Common errors: Spelling mistakes
 - Common errors: Tautology
 - Common errors: The apostrophe
 - Common errors: The comma splice
 - Common errors: The malapropism
 - Common errors: The misrelated participle
 - Common errors: Verbosity
 - Conjunctions
 - Degrees of comparison
 - Denotation and connotation
 - Direct and reported speech
 - Figures of speech 01
 - Figures of speech 02
 - Homonyms
 - Homophones
 - Idioms
 - Introduction to the prefix, suffix and root word
 - Literal and figurative meaning
 - Metaphors
 - Nouns and adjectives
 - Nouns: Plural forms
 - Parts of speech
 - Phrases and clauses
 - Prefixes
 - Prepositions
 - Prepositions (2)
 - Pronouns
 - Proverbs
 - Punctuation 01 (comma, dash, ellipsis dots)
 - Punctuation 02 (capital letters, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, hyphen)
 - Punctuation 03 (colon, semi-colon, inverted commas, brackets)
 - Sentences: Simple, complex and compound
 - Similes
 - Subject and object
 - Subject and predicate
 - Subject-verb concord
 - Suffixes
 - Synonyms
 - Synonyms and antonyms: An introduction
 - Synonyms and antonyms: In context
 - Tenses - simple tenses
 - The colon
 - The comma
 - The full stop
 - The malapropism
 - The semi-colon
 - Types of sentences
 - Understanding the meanings of common prefixes
 - Understanding the meanings of common suffixes
 - Verbs
 
Reading and viewing
- Fact and opinion
 - Figurative language - alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia
 - Figurative language - personification
 - How to summarise a given text
 - Reading and responding to an advertisement
 - Reading and responding to a cartoon
 - Reading and responding to a magazine article
 - Reading and responding to a newspaper article
 - Reading and responding to a questionnaire
 - Reading and responding to an unseen poem
 - Reading and responding to a written speech
 - Reading for comprehension
 - The key features of a novel
 - The reading process
 
Writing and presenting
- Bias and prejudice
 - How to write an advertisement
 - Stereotypes
 - The writing process: the different types of essays
 - Tone
 - Writing a dialogue
 - Writing a diary entry
 - Writing a formal letter asking for help or advice
 - Writing an informal letter asking for help or advice
 - Writing an interview
 - Writing a newspaper article
 - Writing an obituary
 - Writing a review of a story or novel
 - Writing an agenda for a meeting and the minutes of the meeting